there's no way peppermint park turned into archer body shop more than 20 years ago...i was born in november 1984 (i'm 19) and remember going there as a kid all the time...i used to love that place...i think it closed down in the late 80s and became the archer body shop... skate central used to be awesome...we would have end of the school year parties there in elementary school almost every year...good times... fame city, now known as fun plex, used to be awesome too...does anyone else remember that virtual reality minivan-looking ride...it was kinda like a wannabe version of the Back to the Future ride at universal studios...it was the best...
Man, I had totally forgotten about that place. WOW. I loved the mirror maze and the pit of balls. Ah, what a simpler time.
do you guys remember the good 'ol days...you know, when sharpstown mall was actually safe to go into?
Discovery Zone was alot of fun, I think I had atleast 3 of my Birthdays there. Now it is a BootTown and I think its been like that for a while. Dollar Theatre on 6 and Clay. I went there almost daily during the summer. My parents didnt like spending alot of money on movies so I always ended up there seeing old movies that have been out for a few months. Now that place just sits there. Its been closed for about 5 years I'd say and they havent touched it. I wish I knew what they were doing. Than there was an arcade with in walking distance from my house and right next door was a baseball card shop. Thats where all of my allowance went to. It than turned into a golf store now I think its a church. Those were my hotspots...
Me and a couple of friends got kicked out of there. We had a half day at school (Six grade I think) and my friend's mom took us there for the day. Every time we would go through one of the tunnels (or was it a shack) on the water slide we would grab the edge so we could get inside of it. While inside we waited for some other kids to slide down head first and when they did we reached down to grab their shorts. Successfully pulled shorts off two kids. Well when tears started falling we were easily busted..........We were mean But what goes around comes around.........Later that summer my shorts were yanked off in one of the pools at Fame City Water Works. Karma sucks. What about Hanna Barbera (Land?) ? Now it is Splash Town. That place rocked too. Had my first kiss by an older girl there.
that ride was sooo underrated. remember the last like ten seconds when you went on that horizontal loop really really close to the ground? badarse. of course everybody put their hands out to try to grab a blade of grass and if somebody did manage to touch the gound they'd be the coolest person of the day or something. of course no one ever did though. i don't know if anybody else noticed this, but the skyscreamer was a goldmine. once you hopped into the chair if you checked the large crack between the back part and the bottom part of the seat, there was usually A LOT of change that fell out of people's pockets from the latter portion of the ride where you were on your back. my cousins at i would ride it for that sole purpose and then use the money to play miss pacman (or some kind of pacman game) at the arcade by the texas cyclone (we chose that particular arcade because if you jammed a nickel into the machine really really fast, it would think that it was a quarter. actually it wasn't the arcade next to the tc by the theater. it was the one that was closer to the classic car ride.) home vids of pep park? i'd pay to see them. exhilarate was cool too. something about that sounds really familiar, but i can't think of it. very good memories of this place. only thing negative i could say about it was hokey pokey time and the time when they played a song for hand-holding couples and made everybody else get off of the rink. i'm not at all far from murph road, so i'll be stopping by sometime soon. skating rink at funplex didn't even compare. yes. over by the foodcourt. the mirror maze freaked me out, but i remember some kind of a "one-person at a time" ride by the doors that flipped you upside-down or something. hmmmm.... i do remember that, but i also remember not being able to ride it because it was more expensive than most other things there. sigh. notice people saying that pp used to be at a different location. didn't know that.
yeah, i'm not sure when peppermint park switched to the car place but i remember going several times as a kid and i'm 22 so less than 20 years ago. i only remember the helicopter ride and the cars that went in a oval but went around the curves really fast (well fast for a kid i guess). games people play. that place is only about a mile down the street from me so i get to see the weeds and vegetation covering the putt putt course all the time. that place was the bomb. until celebration station came along and became the bomb. now i don't know if anyone goes there anymore. parking lot always seems fairly empty, but it hasn't gone the way of games people play yet. discovery zone squeezed it's way in there somewhere in those years. chuck e. cheese's was also great back in the day, and i think i'm actually old enough to go into it by myself now. i thought the age rule was stupid when they first started it. basically you have to be too old to wanna go in there before you can go in there by yourself. but ski ball did rule there.
i've never really known, but aren't chuck e. cheese's and showbiz pizza the same thing? my cousin had one of his birthday parties at showbiz pizza and he damn near schit in his pants. he was scared of the gorilla guy playing the piano. i could understand though. who in their right mind wouldn't be afraid of this as a child... or grown up?
anyone here ever go to hanna barrbara land. i think it was in spring im not from houston so i dont really remember only went there once. but thought it was cool place.
Yes. From my first post. Yea it was in Spring. It turned into Splash Town USA shortly after it closed. I only went there once myself but I loved it.
My parents got me a season pass to Hannah Barbara Land when I was a child. Those days were good. I miss that time. Fame City was pretty cool too. I lived 3 minutes down the street from that place on Bissonet. All of my friends birthdays were there. It was right in the middle of our elementary school zone back in the day (Alief's Hearne). I remember them shutting down the spider web at Fame City Waterworks because it became unsafe cause someone's hair got caught or something. It was awesome that I was able to do it before it got closed. I was a part of a Karate performence group as a kid there before it became fun-plex. And Treasure Island was the bomb! We went bowling for my girl's birthday at the time in high school, and me and a buddy decided to jump the gate into the main area that was closed. We convinced like 6 people (a couple who I'd never thought would be down for stuff like that) to all sneak into Treasure Island. Oh that was so much fun.
I went to every single place listed in this thread, except for fame city. Add one though... near 290 I believe... "The Castle" / Malibu Grand Prix with the huge mini-golf, bumper boats, arcade, batting cages, and go-carts. It blew Games People Play away (and I think I saw it still there.) There is anothee Malibu, I think someone else mentioned it. Farrel's was cool. Almeda Mall was my spot, too. Man, this thread brings back a ton of memories. What about the original Gulf Gate Mall? And the theatre you had to walk over the loop to get to? Lazer Zone - went there for a friend of mine's birthday on a Sunday afternoon. I remember the green versus red team, and that we wore some funky shoulder pads... it was dope. I hid out up top and sniped. How about the Astrohall? Or the old (I think it was) Albert Jones Hall downtown? Boat shows, fishing shows, etc. My dad did, and still does custom fishing building, rewrapping, etc. (still lives down there on the coast) and we'd go to every single Boat or Fishing show there was. Then along came the George R. Brown, and now Reliant... I remember a drive in theater up off I-45... there's a Wal-Mart and all that crap over there now... I think it's the exit or two north off Gallery Furniture (which by the way used to be in an old Tilson Homes "model home" lot). And the Woodland sused to seem like a failed pipe dream, with two empty shopping centers that had matching 8 screen movies at either end that ended up as dollar cinemas... with a bowling alley in the middle of the stretch... Kingwood was about the same except it caught on sooner. Man. I feel old.
I think that is West Road. I went to Stovall middle school for a couple of years. Never went to the drive in, though I always wanted to.
holy crap, look at you throwing at Farrell's!! I remember going there with my grandparents in the Galleria. really hazy memories, because i couldn't have been much older than about 5. peppermint park rocked. i had a birthday party there as a kid. i was thinking north loop, too. anyone remember Pipe Organ Pizza, in memorial city mall? how about panjo's?? fame city...my best memory of fame city was seeing kathy ireland there...she was doing some appearance, and i was probably in junior high. she was absolutely amazing. that, and i met alan ashby there at the water park during an all-star break that he should have been playing in! i felt very old when i represented one of the security companis that works at fame city in a case...went from being a fun place to a work place.
What about Scooby Doo's pizza by Greens Point mall? That place was cool. I remember going there once maybe twice and playing in the bubbles that fell from the ceiling. I don't remember if the food was good but hey, I was a kid and they had bubbles falling down. Plus it was Scooby Doo.
Hell yeah...Hanna Barbara land was awesome back in the day. It was in the same location that Splash Town is at now. Here is one I've been trying to remember for a long time. As a kid I used to go this small amusement park type place that was right on one of the freeways. From the freeway you could see this huge slide set up on a hill, that was red and white I think. Not a water slide, but one of those where you put your legs in a bag or something. I really wish I could remember what it was, it's been bugging me for nearly 20 years!
